Misunderstood

Misunderstood Robbie Williams



Trying to be misunderstood
But it doesn't do me any good
Love the way they smiled at me
Held their face for eternity
Now let them all fly off

When it comes down
It all comes down
And you will not be found

When it's over
It's all over
Even if I make a sound

I'll be misunderstood
By the beautiful and good in this city
None of it was planned
Take me by the hand
Just don't try and understand

Trying to be misunderstood
Just a product of my childhood
And still I find myself outside
You can't say I haven't tried
Perhaps I tried too hard

No excuses
I won't apologise
Or justified your lies

Come and find me
Tell them to me
Look me in the eyes

I'll be misunderstood
By the beautiful and good
In this city

None of this was planned
Take me by the hand
Just don't try and understand

I Can't forgive – sorry to say
You don't know you're guilty anyway
Isn't it funny how we don't speak
The language of love


Few days ago, one of my friends chated with me and he told me about what happend between he and his girlfriend. They were in different school so they seldome saw each other, but they made phone call several times a day. Being together for almost 2 years, there were some problems between them recently. Last week, the girl called my firend and told him "I am leaving" and said her cell phone was out of eletric. Then, she just hanged up. After that, my friend could not find her for several days. He wasn't really complaining but asking me, as a girl, how did I think. :(
That was so weird! And it was not the first time that she been so strange. So I just told my friend that I didn't like the girl. "It's okay, I'll just let go if she wanted to." His words sounded easy, but I guessd he was sad. Anyway, the song reminds me of him, my poor friend. :( Maybe someone can give suggestion how to make him feel better. Or maybe he really does not care. XD Who knows?

Besides, I remembered once one of my best friends asked me if I was able to share "everything" with others. She said she can't and she asked would that hurt me? I said no, of course. I always think the way we communicated is cute and hearwarming. :D Sometimes, when we were in bad mood, we would send text-mail to each other. Complaing is always a good way to release. But we seldome asked the reason, hahaha. Sounds weird but it's good. How could I tell her I was sad merely because of homesick, hungry, or fail at some test. :) And I suppose there must be something that no one would feel like to talk abot.
But if Robbie told to me, I would hear every single words carefully. :D

Run, money!

Today, I called my sister because I bought two books in books.com and my sister promised she will pay for it. But it turned out that I forgot to put up the phone so my advance charge phone card was totally ran out...:( That means I can't make any phone call until I buy the phone card... So I went to buy it right away. After I bouth that, I thought I deserve to shopping and I saw the brand "Pink" is on sale, 70%. I found a cloth which is pretty cute and it was only 780NT. I was so surprised and I conculated in my mind that it was less than 300 dollars. Hahaha...I was so happy that I told the seller, "I want this one!" But then she told me that one was not on sale...it was a exception. "Ok, 780 dollars is not too expensive.", I thought. Just when I was about to pay the money, I found there was only 700 dollars in my purse. @@ And I had less than 1000 dollars in my account, if I drawed the money then I would be starving untill next week. I was so embrassed that I told her I needed to draw money first and she wanted me to pay some money as deposit so I lied, I told her I would be right back. :(
Finally, I bought a cloth of "Pink" in another shop, it costed me just about 400 dollars. I like it so much but then again I'm running out of my pocket money. :(
Sorry, Mom, I don't know why my money is so good at running. I really don't know. :( It't just like someone are saying, "Run, money! Run!" all the time, and I sure it's not me. :(

For One More Day

This winter vacation, I bought the book "For one more day" at books.com, one of my best friend, and I read it right after I got it.
The novel is a family story, it express the importance of family, love, and mother. :) Chick's parents divorced when he was a child. He loved his father much more than his mom that he always tried to please him, but he always fail. In order to get more close to his father, he chose baseball player as his carrer because that's his father's favorite sport. After his parents divorce, he live with his mom. From then on, he hate his mom for loseing his beloved father.
He lied to his mom that he had to go on business on his mother's birthday, actually, the day before she died. He went to play basketball because his father ask him to do it, but he lost the game. He never see his father after that, he lost his parents at the same day. He felt guilty and he became drunk. Finally, his wife and little girl left him and he committed suicided. During his knockdown, he met his mom's spirit. He suddenly realize how much she love and sacrificed for him. Being with her, he felt happy, sastified and he wanted to stay with her forever.

Anyway, I can't express the story precisely, but it really touches me. Last weekend. both my sister and I went home. My mom saies that she never thought tree kids is not enough, but now sometime she felt so lonely and empty when we are not at home. She is quiet happy when we all get together. :) So do I. I love my family. :)

Dormitory

I moved in the dormitory last week. :D The building is old but the furniture is pretty nice, I like it. :D Morever, some of my classmates are living in the same building so we can find each other much more easier than before. Therefor, I don't have to worry about forgeting homework. hahaha~ and we can go to school together, that's really cool.
My roommate does not show up yet, but I suppose I'll see her tonight. Wish me good luck, please!!

Chinese Wedding

Chinese Wedding
I twice worked as a wedding receptionist in recent years. Because of those experiences, I got the chance to know the marriage customs in Taiwan. I found Chinese wedding is one of the great symbols of its long history that contains courtesy, superstition, and culture.
My major job in the wedding was receiving red envelopes, counting the gift money right in the presence of the guests, and writing the amount of money on the specific cash books and writing thank-you cards, which contains the amount and the guests’ name. This job was easy but important because the family will check it frequently. In fact, they have to return the same amount of money to their guests someday when there is wedding, engagement, or funeral in their family. This is kind of feedback; returning less is not a sin but it is pretty impolite. Besides, the engagement feast must be held by the bride-to-be’s family and they invite the all of the bride’s relatives, friends, but the bridegroom can invite his family only; wile the wedding feast is contrariwise. This might be a strange custom but the purpose is to assure that nobody would deliver the red envelope twice to the same couple. Moreover, the dowry is very important subject in Chinese wedding because each item has different meaning behind it. It concludes too many objects to explain every detail so I just choose something special, such as the leading chicken. It is a delicate chicken that made of plastics or bead, some expensive ones even made of crystals or gold. Putting the leading chicken in the table of the living room, it is said can bring good luck to the family especially good to their careers. Besides, the bride has to prepare red night gown and traditional underwear for herself and her husband because red is a lucky color in Taiwan. Furthermore, the bride’s family will splash some water while the wedding car is setting out to the couple’s house. It is a metaphor that a married daughter is similar to the water that can never return to her parents’ home. It might sounds strange but it is an important point in Chinese tradition. At the same time, the bride will throw a fan from the car window as a symbol of goodness for ‘fan” and “goodness” have the same pronunciation in Chinese. Finally, in to the tradition, “warming bed”- asking a boy to leap on the bed before the wedding night, is regarded a blessing for the couple. It is said that they will have children soon after the wedding.
Knowing the customs of Chinese wedding helps me to understand our tradition further. Because of those experiences, I found our culture is pretty valuable and unique. While some wedding customs might be old-fashioned and anachronistic, they are precious experiences and wisdom that our ancestors handed down to us. Every custom has a unique meaning behind it. No matter it is suitable for modern society or not, it is part of our cultural treasure.

Donating Blood

This afternoon, I donated my blood in the donating card in front of NCHU. This is the eleventh time for me, but I was quiet nervous becauce the last time was eight months ago. However, the cold weather made people's blood vessel shrink, so it was hard for the nurse to find it. In order to collect my blood, she prinked the neddle deeper and deeper into my skin, at that moment, I felt like my skin is going to broken. :( Fortunately, it did not happen but it really hurt. The nurse told me that I might have a bruise and it might last for two weeks. :( Although blood donating is a good thing, I think I better not do it in winter anymore.

Pleto

In my final speaking exam, I think of a instresting story that I leanred in the Background of waster literature.
According to Pleto's explaination about sexual attrection, it is said there were three sex on the earth: man, woman. and the thrid. The thrid extincted too early to be named. It is combined with a man and a woman so they have two heads, four arms, and four legs. Maybe because their tema work, they were good at everything so the God was very scared that he decided to cut them into two. From then on, they spend the rest of thier life looking for the lost part of their body. Once they saw each other, they would embrace tightly because they didn't want to be separated anymore.
Finally, all of them died of starvation. Inspired by the third, man and woman started to looking for the right people who is oppesiteve sex.